Mount Vernon hasn’t traditionally been a football town. Their high school team has enjoyed some recent success—they’ve made the playoffs the past three seasons—but many locals say this East Texas town of 2,750 has, in recent years, been more into girls’ basketball, particularly since that team won state in 2018. Yet football has been the hottest topic of conversation here for most of the summer, after the May 24 school board announcement that Art Briles, the disgraced former football coach at Baylor University, would be named the high school’s new head coach. The team’s first practice of the year took place on a muggy, hot August day in Mount Vernon, but that didn’t keep fans—and media—away. In lieu of a professional PA system you might…View Original PostThe post Art Briles Is Coaching High School Football in Texas. What’s His Endgame? appeared first on Texas Monthly.